Ron Behlau has earned a reputation as one of Queensland’s fiercest legal advocates. He has been involved is some of the state’s highest profile criminal cases but also enjoys a broadly held practice in both professional regulatory investigations/prosecutions and corporate misconduct cases. He appears regularly in the Magistrates/Local, District and Supreme Courts and Tribunals in all States and nationally in the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia. He has secured acquittals for clients in criminal matters ranging from the most serious charges of murder through to dangerous driving cases. Top tier corporate law and boutique litigation law firms refer to him for his expertise in dealing with inquests, investigations and prosecutions led by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Australian Taxation Office, and Workplace Health & Safety regulators. Ron typically acts for professionals, including lawyers, accountants, finance brokers, journalists, engineers, allied health professionals, doctors, nurses, teachers, corporate directors and business owners who find themselves or their family members involved in an investigation or prosecution. He is an Adjunct Lecturer at Law at the Griffith University Law School and is the Co-Director of the internationally renowned Innocence Project founded by his partner, Jason Murakami. He is a member of the First Nations Cultural Committee with the Queensland Law Society and is regularly asked by the Queensland Law Society, Griffith University, Bond University and the University of Queensland to present on human rights and criminal justice issues. Ron was recently published in the prestigious University of New South Wales Law Journal in relation to the lack of regulation of body worn cameras use by regulators.
